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...office, eat, then run to a show or to the suburbs -- or back to the office. Such behavior is considered uncivilized in Show-Biz Land, where tight schedules are spurned. "How can you eat in the same shirt you have worn all day?" sniffs an urbane Los Angeles diner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whims of Bicoastal Dining | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Section 1. The UC shall appropriate $1200 in order to have a diner in Quincy House to honor both the winners and all of the noiminees on the evening of Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporters' Notebook | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...diner in Quincy House sounds like a great idea, but don't you think it might drive the grill out of business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporters' Notebook | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...humor is hip and sometimes bawdy. In a talking blues called Tom's Diner, punks and Valley Girls mingle with waiters and commuters, while a pelvis- wiggling Boitano gooses every woman in sight. Gary Beacom, whose skating blends performance art and circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Spectacle for Thinking Adults | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

McDonald's has a new venue: the diner. After two years of planning, the fast- food giant has opened a one-of-a-kind outlet, the Golden Arch Cafe in Hartsville, Tenn., a small town northeast of Nashville. The 1950s-style restaurant, complete with jukebox, offers such unlikely McFare as lasagna, pork chops and Salisbury steak. The menu includes ordinary hamburgers, but no Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets. While patrons still queue to order their food at a take-away counter, the meal comes on ceramic plates, and is brought to the table by servers sporting bowling shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Remembrance Of Things Fast | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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